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Balloons Over Venus…It Really Happened!

The exploration of Venus presents one of the most formidable challenges in planetary science. While the surface conditions are harsh enough to melt lead and crush standard spacecraft, the upper atmosphere offers a more temperate, albeit chemically aggressive, environment. In 1985, the Soviet Union successfully exploited this atmospheric niche with the Vega program balloons. These two probes, deployed from the Vega 1 and Vega 2 spacecraft, became…
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New Space Economy broke the news in on Thursday, February 19, 2026.
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